"These are women at the wedding, the hats show wealth or importance to the marring family"
"This is the males walking after the wedding the one is the white is the father or uncle"
· Father wears a red hat, which means he devotes his status as a chief
· There are tradictional igbo dancers at the wedding
· Grooms hat always matches bride's dress
· The people give the bride money and gifts to keep her happy and dancing
· The money that they get from this helps to pay for their actual wedding at a church
· The bride's family makes such demands for food items, drinks, tobacco and cigarettes as would resonate with the image of the family among the village folk
· It is necessary for the bride to have spent some time with the family of the bridegroom to get to know them.
· In times past she would accomplish this under the guise of returning an empty keg of palm wine to the bridegroom's family
· If serious incompatibility problems are discovered during this period, the marriage would be unlikely to proceed further.
· They have a family meeting with the middle man so that they can find out if they have any diseases that will carry on and make their child ill.
· If so there would be no wedding and everything would be cut off between them.
· Father wears a red hat, which means he devotes his status as a chief
· There are tradictional igbo dancers at the wedding
· Grooms hat always matches bride's dress
· The people give the bride money and gifts to keep her happy and dancing
· The money that they get from this helps to pay for their actual wedding at a church
· The bride's family makes such demands for food items, drinks, tobacco and cigarettes as would resonate with the image of the family among the village folk
· It is necessary for the bride to have spent some time with the family of the bridegroom to get to know them.
· In times past she would accomplish this under the guise of returning an empty keg of palm wine to the bridegroom's family
· If serious incompatibility problems are discovered during this period, the marriage would be unlikely to proceed further.
· They have a family meeting with the middle man so that they can find out if they have any diseases that will carry on and make their child ill.
· If so there would be no wedding and everything would be cut off between them.
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